Stephen Millies

Renters slam slumlords

More than 100 people, most of them Black, Latinx and Asian, rallied on Oct. 13 in Lower Manhattan’s Foley Square…

October 21, 2016

Train crashes and capitalist decay

The Sept. 29 train crash in the Hoboken, N.J., terminal during the morning rush hour has shaken people throughout New…

October 8, 2016

War criminals protested

Demonstrators at the front door of New York City’s luxurious Plaza Hotel on Sept. 22 boldly protested against Israeli Prime…

September 30, 2016

Victory to Zimbabwe!

More than 100 people marched and rallied in New York City on Sept. 17 in defense of Zimbabwe; the country’s…

September 22, 2016

Why did Obama visit Asia?

Barack Obama didn’t go to China and Laos just to say hello. The president’s trip was part of the Pentagon’s…

September 16, 2016

The spirit of Jerry Brookshire in Milwaukee

On Christmas Eve in 1974, Black teenager Jerry Brookshire was killed by white Milwaukee policeman Raymond Marlow. The cop claimed…

August 26, 2016

Why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated

Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Hiroshima on May 27, the first sitting U.S. president to do so. Obama’s visit…

May 20, 2016

¡Ramón Jiménez presente!

Ramón J. Jiménez never stopped fighting, even after being diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. The Puerto Rican lawyer, Bronx…

May 19, 2016

GE’s ‘moral fabric’ and its forgotten socialist wizard

Is General Electric one of the corporations “destroying the moral fabric” of the United States? That’s what Bernie Sanders told…

April 15, 2016

Capitalism = homelessness

Nearly 24,000 children sleep every night in New York City municipal shelters, according to the Coalition for the Homeless. But…

April 8, 2016